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Eteri Tutberidze
Eteri Georgievna Tutberidze is a Russian figure skating coach who works mainly with single skaters. She is head coach at the Sambo 70 skating club in Moscow. She has coached several skaters to success in international competitions, including Olympic and World Champion Alina Zagitova, two-time World champion and Olympic Silver Medalist Evgenia Medvedeva, and team Olympic Champion Yulia Lipnitskaya.
Valery Meladze
Valeriy Shotayevich Meladze is a Russian singer of Georgian descent and a Meritorious Artist of Russia. He is the brother of composer and producer Konstantin Meladze, who writes songs for him.
Konstantin Meladze
Konstantin Shotayevich Meladze is a Ukrainian-Russian composer and producer of Georgian descent. He is the older brother of singer Valery Meladze and co-founder and co-producer of the Ukrainian girl group Nu Virgos.
Vakhtang Kikabidze
Vakhtang "Buba" Kikabidze is a Georgian singer, actor, screenwriter, producer, composer and politician. He became famous as a lead singer of Orera, a Georgian estrada group that was registered as the first Vocal-Instrumental Ensemble in the Soviet Union in 1958. He performed in a number of films, among them the main role of a helicopter pilot in the iconic Soviet film Mimino.
Nikolay Tsiskaridze
Nikolay Maximovich Tsiskaridze PAR is a Georgian-Russian ballet dancer who had been a member of the Bolshoi Ballet for 21 years (1992–2013).
Kakha Kaladze
Kakhaber "Kakha" Kaladze is a Georgian politician and retired footballer. He has served as a Mayor of Tbilisi since November 2017. A versatile player, he was capable of playing both as a centre-back and as a left-back, or even as a wide midfielder. He played for the Georgia national team from 1996 to 2011. He was voted Georgian Footballer of the Year in 2001–2003, 2006 and 2011 and was considered as one of Georgia's most important players.
Giga Chikadze
Giga Chikadze is a Georgian mixed martial artist and former kickboxer who has competed in the featherweight division of GLORY and who currently competes in the featherweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship.
Lasha Talakhadze
Lasha Talakhadze is a Georgian weightlifter, Olympic Champion, four time World Champion, and four time European Champion competing in the super-heavyweight category. He is a three time winner of the IWF Male Lifter of the Year and the current world record holder in the snatch, the clean and jerk and the total, where his 220 kg snatch and 484 kg total are both all time world records respectively. Because of his consistent tournament success and breaking of numerous world records, he is considered by many to be the greatest super-heavyweight weightlifter of all time.
Merab Ninidze
Merab Ninidze is a Georgian actor. He is best known for the role as Walter Redlich in Nowhere in Africa.
Nani Bregvadze
Nani Bregvadze is a Georgian Soviet singer and actress. She was born, raised and started her career in Soviet Georgia in the USSR, then gained USSR-wide popularity during 1957 6th World Festival of Youth and Students. Bregvadze has performed both with Georgian music groups and as a solo artist.
Goga Bitadze
Goga Bitadze is a Georgian professional basketball player for the Indiana Pacers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Listed at 6 ft 11 in (2.11 m) and 250 lbs, he plays the center position. He was drafted 18th overall by the Pacers in the 2019 NBA draft.
Ekaterina Svanidze
Ekaterine "Kato" Svanidze was the first wife of Joseph Stalin and the mother of his eldest son, Yakov.
Nazí Paikidze
Nazi Paikidze, sometimes also referred to as Paikidze-Barnes, is a Georgian American chess player. She holds the titles of International Master (IM) and Woman Grandmaster (WGM), which FIDE awarded her in 2012 and 2010 respectively. Paikidze was twice world girls' champion and four-time European girls' champion in her age category, and is a twice U.S. women's champion.
Eka Zguladze
Ekaterine "Eka" Zguladze is a Georgian and Ukrainian government official. She served as First Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine since 17 December 2014 till 11 May 2016. She had served as Georgia's First Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs from 2006 to 2012 and Acting Minister of Internal Affairs in 2012.
Zurab Sakandelidze
Zurab Aleksandrovich Sakandelidze was a Georgian basketball player who won gold with the Soviet basketball team at the 1972 Summer Olympics. He played for Dinamo Tbilisi.
Sergo Ordzhonikidze
Sergo Konstantinovich Ordzhonikidze, born Grigol Konstantines dze Orjonikidze, was a Georgian Bolshevik and Soviet politician.
Eduard Shevardnadze
Eduard Ambrosiyevich Shevardnadze was a Georgian politician and diplomat. He served as First Secretary of the Georgian Communist Party (GPC), the de facto leader of Soviet Georgia from 1972 to 1985 and as Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991. Shevardnadze was responsible for many key decisions in Soviet foreign policy during the Gorbachev Era including reunification of Germany. Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, he was President of Georgia from 1992 to 2003. He was forced to retire in 2003 as a consequence of the bloodless Rose Revolution.
Georgi Melkadze
Georgi Dzhemalovich Melkadze is a Russian football player who plays as a left midfielder or left winger for FC Spartak Moscow.
Keke Geladze
Ekaterine Giorgis asuli Geladze, commonly known as "Keke", was the mother of Joseph Stalin.
Petre Mshveniyeradze
Petre Kako Mshvenieradze was a Soviet water polo player of Georgian descent who competed for the Soviet Union in the 1952 Summer Olympics, in the 1956 Summer Olympics, and in the 1960 Summer Olympics.
Nino Khurtsidze
Nino Khurtsidze was a Georgian chess player. She was awarded the FIDE titles of Woman Grandmaster (WGM) in 1993 and International Master (IM) in 1999. She won the World Girls U-20 Chess Championship in 1993 and 1995. Khurtsidze also won the World Girls U-16 Chess Championship of 1991 in Guarapuava, Brazil, the European U-20 Girls Championship in 1992, the absolute Georgian Chess Championship in 1998 and the women's Georgian championship five times.
Sophiko Shevardnadze
Sophie (Sophiko) Paatovna Shevardnadze is a Georgian/Russian journalist, presenter, author and producer. She is the creator and executive producer of the show Simply Complicated on the platform Yandex.Efir, Russia's equivalent of Google. She is the host of SophieCo Visionaries, and between 2006 and 2015 she was a presenter on the radio station Echo of Moscow.
Nikolai Svanidze
Nikolay Karlovich Svanidze is a Russian TV and radio host and member of the Public Chamber of Russia.
Kakhi Kavsadze
Kakhi Kavsadze ; born June 5, 1935 in Tbilisi, Georgia) is a Georgian/Soviet film, television and stage actor.
Shota Arveladze
Shota Arveladze is a Georgian former professional footballer and former manager of Pakhtakor Tashkent.
Revaz Gabriadze
Revaz "Rezo" Levanovich Gabriadze is a Georgian theatre and film director, playwright, writer, painter and sculptor. His son, Levan Gabriadze, is also an actor and film director.
Luka Mkheidze
Luka Mkheidze is a French judoka of Georgian descent. Mkheidze came to France with refugee status in 2010. He won one of the bronze medals in the men's 60 kg event at the 2020 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo, Japan.
Davit Chakvetadze
Davit Gochaevich Chakvetadze is a Georgian-born Russian Greco-Roman wrestler. He moved to Russia in 2013 by the recommendation of Russian national Greco-Roman coach Gogi Koguashvili. Chakvetadze won gold at the 2016 Summer Olympics in the 85 kg category.
Maia Chiburdanidze
Maia Chiburdanidze is a Georgian chess player. She is the sixth Women's World Chess Champion, a title she held from 1978 to 1991, and was the youngest one until 2010, when this record was broken by Hou Yifan. Chiburdanidze has won nine Women's Chess Olympiads.
Georgiy Gongadze
Georgiy Ruslanovich Gongadze was a Ukrainian journalist and film director who was kidnapped and murdered in 2000 near Kyiv. He founded the internet newspaper Ukrayinska Pravda along with Olena Prytula in 2000.